A tapped-inductor buck-boost converter for a multi-DEAP generator energy harvesting system

Emmanouil Dimopoulos; Stig Munk-Nielsen

doi:10.1117/12.2045036

8 March 2014 A tapped-inductor buck-boost converter for a multi-DEAP generator energy harvesting system

Emmanouil Dimopoulos, Stig Munk-Nielsen

Proceedings Volume 9056, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014; 90560J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2045036
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Interest on Dielectric ElectroActive Polymer (DEAP) generators has aroused among scientists in recent years, due to the former ones’ documented advantages against competing electromagnetic and field-activated technologies. Yet, the need for bidirectional energy flow under high step-up and high step-down voltage conversion ratios, accompanied by low-average but relatively high-peak currents, imposes great challenges on the design of the employed power electronic converter. On top of that, the shortage of commercially-available, high-efficient, high-voltage, low-power semiconductor devices limits the effective operational range of the power electronic converter. In this paper, a bidirectional tapped-inductor buck-boost converter is proposed, addressing high- efficient high step-up and high step-down voltage conversion ratios, for energy harvesting applications based on DEAP generators. The effective operational range of the converter is extended, by replacing its high-side switch with a string of three serialized MOSFETs, to accommodate the need for high-efficient high-voltage operation. Experiments conducted on a single DEAP generator - part of a quadruple DEAP generator energy harvesting system with all elements installed sequentially in the same circular disk with a 90° phase shift - validate the applicability of the proposed converter, demonstrating energy harvesting of 0.26 J, at 0.5 Hz and 60% delta- strain; characterized by an energy density of 1.25 J per kg of active material.

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Emmanouil Dimopoulos and Stig Munk-Nielsen "A tapped-inductor buck-boost converter for a multi-DEAP generator energy harvesting system", Proc. SPIE 9056, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014, 90560J (8 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2045036

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